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Great Brita's export trade The Economist pointed out that as Pour prepara- tions for uffensive action at later dale require the continuance of heavy imports, we
We must maintain the highest possible level," The wisdom or necessity for maintaining exports to the highest level has been recognised from the earliest days of the war. In fact the export rade importance loomed so largely in the minds of ment oficials and industrialists Government that at one time the production of armaments suffered to an alarmin extent.
attitude Whair ti changed very considerably under the Churchill reghue, the two-fold objeet of maintaining the war effort at the highest possible pitch and of keeping Anormal dow of exports is recup- nised as the great problem of the moment,
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It is true that inrouds on Britain's foreign exchange resources during the first year of the war were not houvy but the continuous and in- creasing delivery of orders for aero- planes and armoments from abroad musi
considerably widen the gap be- tween imports and exports unless the maintained at A expert trade is higher level thun now reached. To achlove this It is necessary that additional markets should be secured. to replace those lost in Europe and that existing transport facilities should be improved.
With this in mind the decision to despatch a mission to the South American countries is welcome. The object of the mission is two-fold. On the one hand the representatives will endeavour to show that it is in the interest of the countries visited, the 0s it
it is in the interest of the whole world, that Britain should win the war. This should not prove a dif- ficult task especially as the indis- cretions of German agents have dur- ing the past few months been fre- quently criticised and condemned. At the same time the British mission will, in collaboration with South American interests, explore every Avenue that might lead to a further development of economic relations.
Another mission, though dissimilar In character, is on its way to India, In this case the discussions which will be held at New Delhil next month, will include Empire countries only. Delegates from Australia, New Zealand, South
Southern Africa,
Ceylon Rhodesia, Burma, Hongkong, and Maloya will meet to devise the best methods for co-ordinating the Empire's war effort. The increased activity in the war zone in Egypt, and the Eastern Mediterranean calls for continual suprites from what is known as the Eastern group of Em- pire countries. These countries will, in fact, be responsible to an increasing exlant for the provision of
age all war materials, to that zone.
"CAN'T YOU STOP THAT NOISE OUTSIDE?”
We fight for ourselves and
The France of
N
to-morrow
OW that the position of France la crystallising, the first temptation of all will naturally be Indigna- tion at the men who, without popular demand or constitutional authority behind them, have betrayed our Ally.
But indignation is not enough, The right to anger depends upon understanding.
A handful of men, however important. cannot betray forty inillions, even in defcat, uniess there have been profound social forces behind them which have made that betrayal possible.
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By HAROLD
LASKI
by relying, as Franco and Hacha relled, upon the armed might of their foreign opponents.
They are willing to purchase im munity for their own privileges by selling France in chains to Hitler and Mussolini.
They
rely
upon the military fores of the dictators to give them time to organize an authority of com- pulsion they could not secure from. the free consent of the French people.
They put France in pawn to Ger- Those social forces are unmistak-
many and Italy that they may able. They are the influences which
maintain their brief hour of power, In 1848, prevented the political re-
A brief hour it will be. For Laval volution from becoming sacial
and his like, and Petain, who is no revolution, and established Nnpo-
more than their Hindenburg, are, Jeon Isignificantly enough
after all, the men whose purposes precursor of Hitlertam-in power.
ductrines brought France to and They are the influences which defeat. ceased resistance to Prussia in 1870 and suppressed the Commune in one of the most bloody massacres of modern times.
Poisoned Wells
admit his innocence.
privilege of Great Britain to organ- ise that liberation
Granted that we hold firm, the next year is going to see a now 1840 In Europe, upon an immensely more massive scale; and, this time, there will be no successful counter-revo-
lution.
Granted that we hold firm-th is now the basic condition of all civilised freedom. But is hold firms, we in this country have to emanci- pate those democratic forces which capitalist democracy has so long held down.
The Awakening
discover the We also
We also have to dynamic of the masses. have to organise the surrender to its claims of those vested interests. which have so long stood in the way of its expression.
I think Mr. Churchill understands this: I know that Attlee and Green- wood understand it.
The only
way to release this dyna- They have nothing in them that is capable of regenerating the soul mio is by inmense and immediate They and France. They have been unable steps to social justice,
of
They and they only will make it evident to the masses that, with vic- tory, they have in truth nothing to lose but their chains and a world to win.
In a period of acute danger, audacity is the high road to salva- We must throw overboard tion. tradition and routine; it is these that have, in the service of privi lege. made France the victim of their relentless conquerora.
to exact willing consent for their they only will awaken in a fall was the whole courago and determina- betrayal from any Frenclumen who are free openly to express their tion of the people. minds. They are the influences which
masses of Frenchmen abrund sought to make Dreyfus their vic unite to denounce this shameful tim and were prepared to polson the capitulation. Wo know that the wells of French justice rather than great bulk of the Socialist Party of We know France denounces 1. In our own day. they are the in- that it is opposed by the trade fluences which used all their power unions. Herriot, Mandel, Reynaud, to break the social democracy of have stood adamant against it. the Popular Front, and avowedly It is a betrayal imposed by Petain preferred an accommodation with and Laval by means of foreign Hitler at the price even of the liber-
bayancts. has authority over ties of Western civilisation.
Frenchmen only so long as those Laval and Bonnet and their the foreign bayonets can protect it. have always been in politics the commercial travellers of big busi- neas.
have suffered the exit- They ence of political democracy so long as it did not threaten the interests
bly businces.
10
of
aro
It
It Will Come
Whether it be the problem of India or of our relations with the Soviet Union, whether it be the profit-system or the mechanisms of Government, what we need now la large-scale and courageous experi-
tal meatalom.
unable to mobilee our aro
The day those foreign bayonets overthrown, the regime of
We are They were prepared for its sup- Petain and Laval will collapse. On immense resources by coercion; we that day a new France will be born. pression so soon as it appeared that
The France of the third republic can mobilise them by consent.
And the way to consent is to cons political democracy sought to ex- was beaten for the reasons that vince the common people that all tend itself beyond the political field.
was clear that have brought us so near to the they may hope to be depends upon defeat Germany a wholesale abyss: Its leaders lacked the will to victory, and they had therefore falled to build the organisation necessary for victory.
to
And immediately
French eco- transformation of the nomic and social system was necca- sary, fatal to the vested intercats they represented, they were pre- pared to sacrifice France to those vested interests.
For, in essence, they have made Hitler Germany the executioner of French political democracy.
Same Old Model
·
If they have their way, the now pattern will be a way of life in which the great principles of 1789 will have no place. They have used the opportunity of temporary defeat the counter-revolu- augurate the
the
victory.
New World Partners
of Kuintment...
They had separated the political
The way to persuade thêm to the lite of France from the interests of the masses because they were not effort victory requires is to show them by acts now that their hopen prepared to extend--as was shown by their hostility to the Blum have, as victory comes, the certainty
Republican Cavamment ana".
That is what no French Govern- Spain-the frontiers of democracy.
WAF They would not enlist its dynamic ment sought to do since the war
their service.
Ice. They were pre Began; that is what the Fetain- pared to oppose
traditional France Laval
to do. To-day. It is to a new Kermany; they were nos hor wie ernment neither can do. prepared to oppose a new France to Hitler's caretaker; to-morrow it will be the agent of the worst type of a new Germany. :' They were prepared for a victory French reaction.
It has no other purpose than to for traditional France on
enslavement of model of 1914-18: they were not maintain the prepared either for the risks or the France first to the foreign tymnt, and were be to win, inter to the It is significant that so much of sacelices involved in preparing
forces of corrupt privilege. the pattern of their coup d'étar tol victory for the new. France.
11 weeks which
The France wo in Britain fight Even in those last lows the previous Fascist models...
The politicians of big business Reynaud sought to infuse now now to liberato is the France of the ally themselves with reactionary energy into the organising effort, future
It is a France already restless at generals and Cl
Civil servants to over- the men of the old régime conspired
the fate that has
at has been imposed throw the right of a people to affirm and opposed bim at every turn.
They did not want victory on the upon it. Its will
It is a France, also, ready to co- They refuse the
opposition the new terma, for that victory meant, opportunity of expression. They and they knew it an economic and operate in the struggle for Tictory. In aiding it we aid ourselves evade consultation with the organs social revolution: established to legalise the exercise That revolution will come. It is for we are, bound in the future ta of power. They seek to break the the condition of the liberation of go forward as partners to a new resistance of their opponent within France, and it will be the proud and a braver world.
to
Their job is Mercy
SPECIAL MESSAGE From the Chairman of the War Organisation of the British, Red Cross and Order of St. John.
It is difficult for us here, in England, to tell the people of the Colonial Empire how grateful we are for the wonderful effort they have made on behalf of the Bri-. tish Red Cross and Order of St. John War Organisation in this country.
I know very well that many people think the Red Crosa is merely a money-collecting-agen- ey, and that what wo'give out to fho press as to the way in which their money is spent very often does not reach them. May. I therefore tell you a few things which we have done, since the beginning of the War to carry out our great task of mercy and relief of suffering.
-We sent out to France some- thing between £30,000-£40,000- worth of medical comforts and stores.
We sent uut 58 vehicles, including 20 Ambulances, fully equipped: -we established large Stores of Dieppe and Boulogne: we established a Con- valescent Home for Officers, and another for, Nurses, and equipped and staffed them,
We sent to Finland £12,000 worth of medical supplies. Two aeroplanes were sent the moment Finland asked- us for. help, with stocks of chloro- form, Inoculation serum and essen- tial drugs.
We sent more than £12,000 worth of medical stores to Norway in the same way, the moment they asked
UC
In both cases discuities of trans port were very great.
We have a largo Department which deals entirely with the dispatch of parcels of food, clothing and necessaries to pri- soners of war in enemy hands.. In the last war wo spent close on £4,000,000 on this work alonc.
We have another large Depart- ment which concerns itself with Inquiries by people for their wounded and missing relatives. This work is of such immense value that it alone would almost justify the existence of the Red Cross. At the present moment it is dealing with thousands of letters a day from anxious people seeking information concerning their wounded and missing relatives.
We also offer help to relatives in visiting dangerously wounded of sick soldiers in hospital. This was done first in France, and is now carried on in England, ofte
oflen entailing' find- for Ing
temporary accommodation people in the vicinity of hospitals.
In May came the tragle collapse. of...
B.E.F., Belgium, the return of the and later the collapse of France.
we had at Boulogne.. Everything we
and all our Ambulances fell into the hands of the enemy. We hoped that:
we might have rescued the stores at Dieppe, and our staff, at great risk to themselves, went back time after time getting the stores out and away to the West Coast, but such was the nt the rush to save human lives, we, last moment, had to abandon, thesh.
We have lost everything we put Into France, and all that has to be. replaced,
Our trained, stretcher-bearers and V.A.D.8 worked day and night to remove the sick and wounded from the ships and take them to trains and hos- pitals.
Then the wounded began to pour back to England, and in the first days of the Dunkirk evacuation we were asked for £30,000 worth of hospital comforts which we de livered to hospitals all over England... We have constant demands on u
help with hospital stores and clothing sailors who have been shipwrecked and, in many cases, wounded by enemy action. All our existing County Organisations are told to find at once all that is needed for that
to
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The Mr of Health, in whose
charge the wounded are now have called upon us to find 10,000 bods at very short notice. They will help the cost of equipping these hospitale, which may amount to as many as 200, all over the British Isles, but it will cost the British Red. Cross and St. John War Organian- tion huge sums to staff and maintain",
:to: We have
find for Ministry of War Office. and the Health anything up to 200Am- bulances, and we are well on the
number way to doing so. A large these Ambulances are being supplied through the generosity of the Do- minions, Colonies and British Com- munities in all parts of the world: 50 of them have been promised by Canadian: 60 by America: hnd we
up to 2003 Wesfory anything have now another offer from America
d'equip. course, have to
them. undertatio - 12
of
them and
We, the War organis
Var Organisation of the British Red Cross and Jolinaro determined. may to carry out our dut sick and wounded, and confidence which the pubi generally placed in us